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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
The point of closing down and having all these restrictions isn't to stop the virus. It's to slow it down, and give science and the medical community time to create a vaccine and discover safe treatments for people who come down with it.
That way even if it does return next season, we will have the tools to manage it. Not necessarily cure it, and not prevent it 100% but MINIMIZE the risk, MINIMIZE the suffering, MINIMIZE the deaths that result from it.
We have no way of doing that currently except to shut things down and keep everyone away from each other. That obviously isn't something we can do long-term. It is a temporary pause so they can come up with something better, for the next time it happens.
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Why our cure is worse than the disease! We have inflicted permanent damage to the very fabric of this country, under the guise of fixing it! Even in the very best of scenarios it will take MORE THAN a generation to recover, as a country, just to the point we were when the shut down occurred. (1) At the national level, the first relief package to repay for shutdown was $2.4 TRILLION, and there's talk of up to 3 more similar packages. Don't even try to get your head around what this will do to future capabilities of our federal government! They (we) are crippled for the next generation. (2) The effect at state level is easier to understand since city, county, and state governments are required by law to actually have money before they spend it. They can not live in the fiscal fantasy world our congress has created. The first moment of the shut down we created 30 Million newly unemployed, with many more following. Unemployment payments are a state responsibility. With the shut down we actually, and literally, bankrupted every state. So to compensate, the feds authorized loaning every state the needed money from the Federal Reserve. Eleven states have so far applied. (California, NY. NJ. Connecticut, Illinois, Texas, Mass. Ohio, West VA, Washington.) Pardon, but can't resist laughing about California. Upon shut down they authorized $150 million in payments to illegal "sanctuary" immigrants since the Feds did not include them in their corona virus program. Then the next day they applied for a $10.1 billion federal loan to pay their unemployed, because California is broke.